PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Vladimir Harkonnen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Junior Paulista (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Paulista comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Champagne Supernova kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Harkonnen
vs
Paulista

185 cm
30
200 lbs
13 - 11 - 0

180 cm
26
195 lbs
8 - 6 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

Good wrestler
Great elbows
Heavy handed

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 13 - 11 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Vladimir Harkonnen!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 6 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Junior Paulista!
The judges for this bout are Valeri Chadov, Dmitry Maklakov and Aleksei Zolotukhin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Paulista throws a hook to the side of Harkonnen's head but Harkonnen sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Paulista keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Harkonnen can't break the clinch.
Harkonnen is pushing Paulista up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Harkonnen lands a right hand that snaps the head of Paulista backwards.
Harkonnen lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Harkonnen is looking for a takedown up against the cage. Paulista gets underhooks though and prevents the takedown attempt.
Harkonnen takes an elbow to the temple.
Paulista is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Paulista lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.

Paulista breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Harkonnen moves in looking to clinch but Paulista pushes him off.
Harkonnen walks into a jab.
Harkonnen throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Harkonnen lands with a cross to side of his opponent's head.
Paulista connects with a crisp jab.

Harkonnen is rocked!
Harkonnen throws a jab when Paulista was well out of range.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Paulista closes the distance and pushes Harkonnen back into the cage.
Harkonnen wants to get back to striking at distance but Paulista won't allow it.
Paulista tries to break free but Harkonnen pushes him back against the cage.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Harkonnen is trying to break free.
Harkonnen wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Paulista has him pressed against the cage.
Paulista looking to stall.
Harkonnen wants to get back to striking at distance but Paulista won't allow it.
Harkonnen makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Harkonnen working hard to break the clinch.
Harkonnen tries to throw a body punch but Paulista avoids it by throwing Harkonnen back against the cage.
Paulista stalling.
Harkonnen changes levels and goes for a takedown here. Paulista fights it off and pushes away nicely.

Paulista clinches with his opponent.
Paulista is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Harkonnen is looking to take this one to the mat.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Vladimir Harkonnen. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Paulista breaks from the clinch.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Harkonnen misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Paulista.
Harkonnen ducks under a wild hook from Paulista.
Paulista is looking to clinch.

Paulista gets a clinch.
Paulista is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Harkonnen is keeping busy.
Harkonnen is working for takedown but Paulista is calmly controlling the position for now.
Harkonnen is trying to work for a single leg takedown but Paulista pulls him back up using the underhooks.

Harkonnen pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Harkonnen throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Paulista jabs at Harkonnen's body.
Harkonnen is breathing heavily.
Paulista thows a body shot but no joy.
Paulista wants to clinch up but Harkonnen keeps it at a distance.
Paulista jabs away that one connects to the head of his opponent.
Harkonnen takes a shot to the body in his stride.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Paulista steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Harkonnen.
Paulista tries to clinch up.
Paulista lands a body shot.
Paulista clobbers Harkonnen with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
Paulista scores with a jab to the head.
Oh Harkonnen is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Harkonnen on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!

Harkonnen ducks straight into an uppercut from Paulista and tumbles to the canvas! It’s a flash knockdown though - Harkonnen manages to regain guard straight away.
The referee wants the fighters to be more active or he's going to reset them on the feet.
Paulista advances position into side control!
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Paulista scores with a big shot from side control... and another... and another! Oh Harkonnen is done here - save him referee! More strikes land and eventually the ref does step in and Paulista can finally stop beating on his defenseless opponent!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Junior Paulista!
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